Noun: skulduggery skúl'dú-gu-ree
- Dishonest and underhand behaviour
"The auditors uncovered financial skulduggery in the company's accounts";
- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky-panky, jiggery-pokery [informal], skullduggery, sculduggery [rare]
Derived forms: skulduggeries
Type of: deceit, deception, misrepresentation
Encyclopedia: Skulduggery